A relationship between solar activity and frequency of natural disasters in China

The relationship between the length of the solar cycle, a good indicator of long-term change in solar activity, and natural disasters (drought, flood, and strong earthquakes) in China during the last 108 years is analyzed. The results suggest that the length of solar cycle may be a useful indicator for drought/flood and strong earthquakes. When the solar activity strengthens, we see the length of the solar cycle shorten and more floods occur in South China and frequent strong earthquakes happen in the Tibetan Plateau,but the droughts in East China as well as the strong earthquakes in Taiwan and at the western boundary of China are very few. The opposite frequencies occur when the solar activity weakens. The current study indicates that the solar activity may play an important role in the climate extremes and behavior in the lithosphere.     

Geomagnetic Pc3 Pulsations During the Total Solar Eclipse on Aug 11, 1999

The solar eclipse on August 11, 1999, observed in the region covered by many geomagnetic observatories, has offered a unique opportunity to look for an effect of the eclipse on geomagnetic pulsations. The pulsation activity digital data have been taken from Budkov Observatory in the Czech Republic (in the X component only), from observatories in Germany (Niemegk, Fürstenfeldbruck, Bad Bergzabern), in Hungary (Nagycenk), and for comparison in South Africa (Hermanus, conjugate-point station), and in Finland (Sodankylä, far from the eclipse zone). At all these stations the field in all three component has been recorded. The pulsation amplitudes in the X component exhibit a long-term minimum near the time of the eclipse. Spectral analysis of selected short intervals confirmed this decrease and also revealed a decrease of the average pulsation period during the eclipse. Such a change in the amplitude or in the period was not observed outside of the eclipse interval or in other days. Investigation in some narrower frequency bands showed that the maximal decrease occurred in the 15–20 s band. All these changes can be found in records from all the stations near the eclipse totality belt, also in records at the conjugate-point station, where no eclipse occurred. No signature has been found in records at the station situated far from the eclipse zone.     

太阳系早期的短寿期放射性核素

较详细地介绍全新的太阳系起源理论——X-wind模式,天体化学实验发现太阳系早期存在大量的短寿期放射性核素(半衰期小于100Ma),这些核素对太阳系的形成和演化有重要的影响,一种理论认为,这些核素是在恒星内部合成,并由星风注入原太阳分子云,星风产生的激波诱发分子云核的塌缩而形成原太阳,另一种理论认为,这些核素是高能粒子与原太阳分子云或太阳星云中的气体和尘埃相互作用的产物。     

Contributions to the Ring Current Energy During Geomagnetic Storms

The purpose of this research was to study the complexity of the energization of the ring current during a geomagnetic storm, produced during southern Bz(IMF) by the injection of plasma sheet ions, accelerated by enhanced convective electric fields. This model assumes that the plasma sheet is continuously populated by H⁺ from the sun and the ionosphere, and sporadically by ionospheric O⁺, making the ring current a coupled system whose energy can hardly be expressed analytically. When Bz(IMF) turns north, the ring current becomes uncoupled, and the energy decays exponentially if the storm is weak, or can be expressed as a combination of exponentials during strong storms representing the quick decay of O⁺ and the slower decay of H⁺, as has been shown.     

云台太阳光谱仪像质优良的时间分布规律

通过对云台水平式太阳光谱仪 1 982年太阳光谱观测中的成像质量情况统计分析 ,初步得到光谱仪一年中成像质量优良的时间在秋夏 9月和 8月份 ;一天内有两次像质优良的时间 ,上、下午各有一次 ,分别在日出后 2～ 3小时和日落前 3～ 4小时各有半小时到 1小时左右的时间。     

中纬度地区的洪水与太阳活动关系的研究

本文试图说明太阳活动与地球天气气候相关联 ,并用韩国江汉大洪水及我国长江大洪水的事例建立中纬度 (2 0°～ 4 0°)地区的洪水与太阳活动的统计规律 :二者呈负相关 ,大洪水常发生在太阳活动相对宁静的年份。由此本文推断未来几年长江发生大洪水的可能性不大。     

1997年3月9日漠河日全食外日冕结构及相对强度分布

利用简单的视频图像采集系统 ,对 1 997年 3月 9日用PanasonicNV -S880EN型摄像机拍摄的黑龙江漠河日全食黄光 (加GG1 1滤光片 )和白光日冕观测资料进行计算处理 ,得到大于 1 .5R⊙ 的太阳活动低年外日冕结构及其相对强度分布。     

Ionospheric measurements of relative coronal brightness during the total solar eclipses of 11 August, 1999 and 9 July, 1945

Swept-frequency (1/10 MHz) ionosonde measurements were made at Helston, Cornwall (50°06N, 5°18W) during the total solar eclipse on August 11, 1999. Soundings were made every three minutes. We present a method for estimating the percentage of the ionising solar radiation which remains unobscured at any time during the eclipse by comparing the variation of the ionospheric E-layer with the behaviour of the layer during a control day. Application to the ionosonde date for 11 August, 1999, shows that the flux of solar ionising radiation fell to a minimum of 25±2% of the value before and after the eclipse. For comparison, the same technique was also applied to measurements made during the total solar eclipse of 9 July, 1945, at Sörmjöle (63°68N, 20°20E) and yielded a corresponding minimum of 16 ± 2%. Therefore the method can detect variations in the fraction of solar emissions that originate from the unobscured corona and chromosphere. We discuss the differences between these two eclipses in terms of the nature of the eclipse, short-term fluctuations, the sunspot cycle and the recently-discovered long-term change in the coronal magnetic field.